[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 04/11/02 (fwd)

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Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 04/11/02 (fwd)
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April 11, 2002

Scientists stole trade secrets from 4 companies besides Lucent.
The three Chinese nationals accused of stealing trade
secrets from Lucent Technologies also victimized four
other companies, according to a new indictment returned
Thursday. The three men, including two scientists who
worked at Lucent's Murray Hill headquarters, now face
24 counts, including the original conspiracy charge,
14 counts of possessing trade secrets, and nine
counts of wire fraud.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3045661.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/356900p-2901291c.html

Study: 10,000 people report they lost $18 million to Internet fraud
Nearly 10,000 Americans reported losing $18 million
in online scams last year, according to the Internet
Fraud Complaint Center's annual report. The average
loss for those scammed was $435. Almost half of
the 16,775 fraud cases investigated by the center
were people complaining they were duped in online
auctions. Other scams included non-delivery of
promised merchandise and credit card fraud.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3037673.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/737233.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/11/online.fraud.ap/index.html
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51725,00.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/355858p-2897258c.html

Monitoring reduces security risks
Counterpane today released statistics to back its
claim that customers of its monitoring services are
far less likely to have their networks penetrated.
In the first quarter of 2002, Counterpane monitored
approx. 200 networks worldwide and processed 31
billion network events. The company's analysts
investigated 57,000 separate security incidents,
of which 55 per cent turned out to be false positives,
27 per cent were authorised customer activity,
and 18 per cent were actual attacks. The attacks
consisted of unauthorised scans, denial of service
attacks, probes, attacks on a third party or
attempts to otherwise compromise a network.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24806.html

Europe elbows Internet content 'blocking'
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly
to oppose the use of "blocking" as a way of regulating
content on the Internet. The vote (460 in favour,
0 against and 3 abstentions) this morning means
that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access
to Web sites. Instead, they have been given the
green light to continue with self-regulation.
Today's decision has been welcomed by Louisa
Gosling, President of the European Internet
Services Providers Association (EuroISPA),
as a "forward looking and informed decision".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24808.html

RIAA Asks Congress For More Piracy Protection
The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) this week urged a powerful House panel
to focus more intently on combating digital music
piracy. "Digital music piracy is the most serious
problem affecting digital music and the music
industry; and it has implications with regard
to most of the other issues and proposals being
considered," RIAA President Hillary Rosen wrote
in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175794.html

KaZaa chaos doesn't stop the music
http://www.msnbc.com/news/736467.asp
Are Ads a Gateway to Illegal CDs?
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51719,00.html

PC Maker Fights Lawmaker On CD Ripping/Burning
PC maker Gateway is on the road in a campaign to
flag down politicians who want copyright-protection
technology legislated into digital media formats
and devices such as television set-top boxes and
computers. Gateway, already known for humorous
marketing campaigns featuring chief executive Tedd
Waitt and the company's Holstein-cattle-themed
packaging, Wednesday began airing a TV commer-
cial that showed a truck-driving Waitt and a
bovine companion lip-synching to a hip-hop
version of the Gordon Lightfoot tune "Sundown."
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175827.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130832

Army poised for Mannheim project
The U.S. Army Signal Command and many defense
agency partners soon will begin participating in
the Mannheim project, an effort designed to help
the Army develop an integrated computer network
defense as part of its overall information technology
transformation and consolidation. The project
will begin next week as phased exercises that
will incorporate the institutional and tactical
Army, said Maj. Gen. James Hylton, commander of
the Army Signal Command, speaking at an April 10
asymmetric warfare symposium sponsored by the
Association of the U.S. Army.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0408/web-mann-04-11-02.asp

Users slam Microsoft Security Analyser
Just a GUI version of HfNetChk, say disgruntled
punters. Microsoft released the Baseline Security
Analyser (MBSA), a free tool which analyses Windows
systems for common security misconfigurations,
earlier this week. But users have already slammed
it as just a GUI version of the software giant's
HfNetChk.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130844

Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files
Just over a week ago, while searching for a file
on a Windows-XP machine, I was surprised to see the
Search Assistant attempting to activate my Internet
connection. It puzzled me because I wasn't searching
the Internet, only my local drive. I was busy with
other things at the time, but I made a mental note
to look into it soon, which I promptly forgot to do.
This morning, Reg reader Jody Melbourne rattled my
cage, fresh from having made the same discovery.
He'd noticed that the Assistant was establishing
a connection with a machine at Microsoft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html

This Ex-Hacker's Fat Is in the Fire
The escapades of larger-than-life German
Netrepreneur Kim Schmitz made him a cult figure.
Now they've landed him in jail. Eight months before
the indictment, Kim Schmitz saw it coming. As German
authorities closed in on the one-time hacker and
Internet entrepreneur, he threw one last blow-out
party in May, 2001 -- immortalizing the revelry with
digital photos posted on his Web site. Schmitz and
entourage headed off to Monaco from Munich in a
fleet of rented sports cars, booked a pair of huge
yachts, and invited a bevy of attractive women in
bikinis to join them. The champagne alone cost
$40,000, Schmitz boasted on his Web site.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020411_3688.htm

National Academies Study Tempers Call For National ID
Efforts to establish a national identification
system could backfire unless policymakers address
an exhaustive array of privacy, security and
logistical concerns, the nation's top research
and development institutions warned today. The
recommendations were offered in a report endorsed
by the National Research Council's Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board, which is staffed by
an array of private sector entities and academic
institutions, including Microsoft Corp., AT&T Labs,
AOL Time Warner, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Stanford University, among many
others.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175823.html

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